Comparative study of ZnS thin films deposited by CBD and ALD as a buffer layer for CIGS solar cell

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1101-1104

  Aryal, Krishna ^a   Erkaya, Yunus ^a   Rajan, Grace ^a   Ashrafee, Tasnuva ^a   Rockett, Angus ^b   Collins, Robert W ^c   Marsillac, Sylvain ^a  

^a Old Dominion University   (United States)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

Author keywords

Buffer layers; Copper indium gallium diselenide; Thin film solar cells; Zinc sulfide

Indexed keywords

ATOMIC LAYER DEPOSITION; BUFFER LAYERS; CADMIUM SULFIDE; INDIUM SULFIDE; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SELENIUM COMPOUNDS; SOLAR CELLS; SPECTROSCOPIC ELLIPSOMETRY; THIN FILMS; ZINC SULFIDE;

CHEMICAL-BATH DEPOSITION; COPPER INDIUM GALLIUM DISELENIDE; DEPOSITION PARAMETERS; DIELECTRIC FUNCTIONS; FABRICATION OF THIN FILMS; REFLECTION MEASUREMENTS; STRUCTURAL AND OPTICAL PROPERTIES; THIN FILM SOLAR CELLS;

DEPOSITION;

EID: 84896471248     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2013.6744333     Document Type: Conference Paper

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